The 1947 Academy Award winning film. The Best Years of Our Lives depicts the homecoming of three World War Ii veterans who were forced to pick up the streams of their interrupted youths after gaining a new perspective on life. The horrors of war and the thrill of victory over the greatest evil humankind ... Read more
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President Clinton Interview
ABILITY Magazine provides you with a virtual seat in the oval office, asking America’s highest state official about what he sees as the future of people with disabilities within the growing US economy. Chet Cooper: Under the present Social Security System, disability is determined by a 5-step process. The claimant must have no substantial ... Read more
Tony Coelho
CHET COOPER: What developments have taken place over the years as a result of the committee’s work? And where will you focus your attention in the future? TONY COELHO: The first thing we did was to reorganize. We basically had eight different committees within a committee, I didn’t understand how you could do that, ... Read more
Will I See Ewe In The Future?
ABILITY Magazine is committed to the spirit of the Presidential Summit. Therefore, ABILITY Magazine is proud to allow young writers to participate in a junior internship program providing youth with an outlet for their writing endeavors. Will I SEE EWE IN THE FUTURE? So about now just about everyone has heard about cloning. The ... Read more
Bio – Feedback
Bernard Brucker is the Director of the Bio-feedback Laboratory at the University of Miami School of Medicine. He has been working in the field of bio-feedback for quite some time. He started his work in 1969 as an assistant research scientist at NYU Medical Center. There he began research on the structure of the ... Read more
Building a Better Sandwich – Health
Sandwiches have great potential to serve up sound nutrition: complex carbohydrates and fiber in the bread; protein and other nutrients in the filling; and lots of vitamins, minerals and fiber in the vegetable add-ons that boost flavor and crunch. So why waste your time and calories on white bread sandwiches loaded with high-fat bologna ... Read more
Aroma Therapy
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even ... Read more
The Wedding – Humor Therapy
Every year thousands of people are brought in front of an altar to exchange vows and join bank accounts for better or for worse. With stars in their eyes, they gaze upon each other while pondering the question, “What the heck am I doing?” A wedding is a serious thing-even to a male. It ... Read more
Movie Review – The Best Years of Our Lives
Vietnam was not the first war in which thousands of soldiers returned home with new anxieties, feelings, disabilities, and obstacles which made it difficult for them to readjust to their dramatically changed homefront. The President’s Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities was initially created as an effort to ease the transition of ... Read more
